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February 6, 2012, 12:54 pm

I will be getting married in June and my future stepson has a lot of issues that I'm trying to help with an learn about but I feel like I don't have a clue. He is 7 and has RAD. His dad has been anti medication his whole life (and I don't blame him, I'm not a fan either), but he has recently...

February 4, 2012, 4:57 pm

Your best bet is to get a quote from AAA. When I was fostering teenagers in California, I found the best deal through the Auto Club (AAA) after getting quotes from all the major car insurers.

February 4, 2012, 11:40 am

Thanks to all of you for your advice. The common theme is choices. To them it's empowering, for us, we need to be one step ahead. So, wherever possible, I will allow him to make a choice to avoid a battle of wills.:cheer:

January 30, 2012, 6:44 am

I know, old thread, but seriously. Just go to the playgroup for the kids and read a book! Ignore the snoots and just enjoy not having the children cling to you and whine with boredom. I live in a country where there are no playgroups, hardly even any playgrounds at all an none within walking...

January 30, 2012, 6:29 am

I am not an expert at this by any means but here is my experience. My 16-month-old who came home at 10 months also hits, headbutts, bites and twists nipples very hard. He has seriously good aim. He will wait until I am unprepared and then headbutt me in the face very hard, hard enough to break...

January 29, 2012, 11:30 pm

Corinne1999, this is completely normal in certain situations. Many babies with attachment issues don't want to be held and behave exactly in that way. That is what I expected, taking a 10-month-old from an Eastern European orphanage. I didn't get that. Instead I got this super clingy baby who at 16...

January 28, 2012, 7:19 pm

It also keeps things very organized - beds and dressers only in the bedroom (stays totally clean) while toys and games go in the playroom. This is my thought exactly! And my kids have never *not* shared a room so I dont think they know what that means, and I could totally see them all sleeping...

January 27, 2012, 7:56 pm

I love the idea of asking kids if they are telling or tattling. My kids are all old enough to understand the differences. I'm going to try this at our house.

January 24, 2012, 4:06 pm

I have an adopted teenager son. I have come to realize that almost everything he does wakes up some habit, value, cultural standard of mine, and challenges it. I have the feeling that it makes me re-think my standards and value at that moment. For example, we may have been raised as girls of...

January 20, 2012, 8:47 am

My kid is commenting daily about his bio-mom. Any suggestions appreciated. My usual reply is, "we really needed you, God brought you". But I need a way to shut the conversation down a bit. He is using it to irritate us.

January 10, 2012, 12:08 am

And Raven is right, just cut and paste this into one of the Special Needs forums: http://forums.adoption.com/special-needs-attachment/

January 9, 2012, 8:16 am

An update almost 4 years later is that I started him on daily flax - linseed or flax seed and since he has started that he has needed 2 supps to go - so instead of every 5 days he now has gone years without any extra help. He is pretty dependant though, if he misses a few days in the week, then the...

January 8, 2012, 12:55 pm

We've been parents of two and are now parents of one. My two were 21 months apart. I can tell you that in a LOT of ways, parenting my two was easier than parenting my one. With my son, if he wants to play or read or anything, he needs mommy or daddy to make it happen. With my two, they played...

January 7, 2012, 7:25 pm

A friend of mine used a chart system that she called the elevator. Each child had a different chart. On one side were responsibilities (room clean, chores, grades, homework, language clean, etc) and on the other side were privleges, (phone, video games, tv time, later bedtime, driving, leaving the...

January 27, 2012, 6:29 am

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